It is hard to guess what a Jamaican flower bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Jamaican flower bat (Phyllonycteris aphylla) on average weights 14 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Jamaican flower bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Phyllonycteris). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7 cm (0′ 3″).
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The Jamaican flower bat (Phyllonycteris aphylla) is a critically endangered species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is endemic to Jamaica.
Animals of the same family as a Jamaican flower bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Little yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Little big-eyed bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Tonatia silvicola with a weight of 32 grams
- Wrinkle-faced bat with a weight of 23 grams
- Bidentate yellow-eared bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Davies’s big-eared bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Heller’s broad-nosed bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Godman’s long-tailed bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Jamaican fruit bat with a weight of 42 grams
- Goldman’s nectar bat with a weight of 21 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Jamaican flower bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Phyllonycteris aphylla:
- Turbo shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Nelson’s pocket mouse bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Mexican free-tailed bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Long-tongued nectar bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Chestnut dunnart bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Greater long-fingered bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Dollman’s tree mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Broad-eared bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Russet free-tailed bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Jamaican flower bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Jamaican flower bat:
- Lesser large-headed shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Plains pocket mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Short-nosed harvest mouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Arctic shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Little native mouse with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Asiatic short-tailed shrew with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Gray spiny mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Delicate vesper mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)